[This post began as a response to some comments made by Douglas Storm on Amber’s most recent post.] The name…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Midnight in Paris (and other recent Woody Allens)
[Last weekend, en route to Madagascar, Jeremy M. Davies swung by my Chicago atelier to hear my neighbor perform Mahler’s…
Art as Inheritance, part 3: Reverse Chronology
I’ve been doing some research into reverse chronology (for the follow-up to my post “From ‘Doom House’ to ‘Mood House’”),…
Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?
In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would…
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor…
The 1970s vs. the 2000s (in Hollywood film, at least)
Paul’s post “Science in the Ghetto” got me thinking about the infantilizing of Hollywood movies. I wanted to see if…
More on Inception: Shot Economy and 1 + 1 = 1
Some good questions came up in the comments section of my lengthy Inception critique (“Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception“), and…